Definitions: week5 language development

Question 1

Holophrastic

Answer 1

Expressing a complex of ideas in a single or fixed phrase

Question 2

Telegraphic

Answer 2

Sending message via a telegraph system

Question 3

Overextension

Answer 3

Child uses a word to describe multiple things

Question 4

Under extension

Answer 4

Child fails to use a word to its full range

Question 5

Taxonomic Assumption

Answer 5

Children use novel word to label a whole object, children must learn how to apply the label to similar objects

Question 6

U-shaped learning

Answer 6

Learning is correct, gets abandoned and then learns correct again

Question 7

Child- directed speech

Answer 7

the way persons linguistic characteristics change when talking to a child or a toddler

Question 8

Nativism

Answer 8

Children are born with an innate ability to organise laws of language

Question 9

Fast mapping

Answer 9

the mental process of leaning a new concept

Question 10

Language Acquisition Device

Answer 10

A system of principles that children are born with to help them learn languages

Question 11

Mean Length of Utterance

Answer 11

The average number of morphemes per utterance